317.1C Department — powers and duties.
1. The department shall assist commissioners, boards of supervisors, and cities in the interpretation of this chapter and the administration and enforcement of this chapter.
2. a. The department may adopt administrative rules, pursuant to chapter 17A, providing a list of plants that it determines is noxious in the manner provided in section 317.1A.
b. The department may establish priorities from the list of noxious weeds described in section 317.1A for control or eradication. The priorities may be published annually and made available to the state department of transportation, counties, commissioners, and to the public on the internet site controlled by the department of agriculture and land stewardship. The state department of transportation, boards of supervisors, and weed commissioners shall consider the priorities when establishing programs of weed control or eradication pursuant to section 317.13.
3. The department may adopt rules, pursuant to chapter 17A, providing a list of recommended methods for control or eradication of noxious weeds.
2018 Acts, ch 1047, §4
Structure Iowa Code
Section 317.1A - Noxious weeds.
Section 317.1B - State weed commissioner.
Section 317.1C - Department — powers and duties.
Section 317.1D - Exemption — Iowa hemp Act.
Section 317.2 - State botanist.
Section 317.3 - Weed commissioner — standards for noxious weed control.
Section 317.4 - Direction and control.
Section 317.5 - Weeds in abandoned cemeteries.
Section 317.6 - Entering land to destroy weeds — notice.
Section 317.7 - Report to board.
Section 317.8 - Duty of secretary of agriculture or secretary’s designee.
Section 317.9 - Duty of board to enforce.
Section 317.10 - Duty of owner or tenant.
Section 317.11 - Weeds on roads — harvesting of grass.
Section 317.12 - Weeds on railroad or public lands and gravel pits.
Section 317.13 - Program of control or eradication.
Section 317.14 - Notice of program.
Section 317.15 - Loss or damage to crops.
Section 317.16 - Failure to comply.
Section 317.17 - Additional noxious weeds.
Section 317.18 - Order for weed control or eradication on roads.
Section 317.19 - Road clearing appropriation.
Section 317.20 - Equipment and materials — use on private property.
Section 317.21 - Cost of weed destruction.
Section 317.22 - Duty of highway maintenance personnel.
Section 317.23 - Duty of county attorney.
Section 317.24 - Punishment of officer.
Section 317.25 - Invasive plants prohibited — exception — penalty.